mortgage

mortgage
\ \ [14] Mortgage means literally ‘dead pledge’. It comes from Old French mortgage, a compound formed from mortdead’ and gagepledge’ (source of English gage and closely related to English wage). The notion behind the word is supposedly that if the mortgagor fails to repay the loan, the property pledged as security is lost, or becomes ‘dead’, to him or her.
\ \ Cf.MORTAL, WAGE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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Synonyms:
(for the payment of a debt)


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